Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Grad Aps

1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Grad Aps has 1 pending office action assigned to 1 distinct examiner. The busiest examiner for this portfolio is BAUER, CASSEY D, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because there is only 1 pending action, the prosecution is entirely concentrated under this single examiner. This simplified structure allows for a direct and focused response to the pending matter without the complexity of multiple examiner interactions. The lack of other pending actions means that the current USPTO activity for Grad Aps is defined by this single examiner relationship.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

1
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Case Difficulty Mix

Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.

1
Hard (100%)
0
Medium (0%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (100%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
100% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.

10 h
Manual time on pending OAs
2 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
4 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BAUER, CASSEY D 1 74.7% +16.3%

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19033950 APPARATUS FOR BEVERAGE CONTAINER TEMPERATURE CONTROL BAUER, CASSEY D —

Interview Candidates (1)

Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19033950 APPARATUS FOR BEVERAGE CONTAINER TEMPERATURE CONTROL BAUER, CASSEY D —

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19033950 APPARATUS FOR BEVERAGE CONTAINER TEMPERATURE CONTROL BAUER, CASSEY D — §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 22, 2025

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